Last Thursday began work to modernize one of the areas of Santomera with the worst infrastructure and services: the labyrinth of alleys formed by the Victoria, Magdalena and Última roads, located northwest of the Mota neighborhood, next to the school Our Lady of the Rosary beads.
The action involves the elimination of architectural barriers through the installation of a single paving platform, the improvement of the sanitation network and the supply of drinking water, including the replacement of fiber cement pipes and lead pipes by PVC pipes and installation of led luminaires that offer a much greater energy efficiency than the current ones.
Councilor for Works and Services, Joaquín Rubio, who supervised the area this morning, stressed that "the public facilities and services that these streets have been executed in the seventies, so that they have accumulated almost fifty years of life, time during which they have not received any type of investment ".
According to Rubio, "this action is necessary to build a more livable, sustainable and friendly municipality", as well as "to ensure that all citizens enjoy the same public facilities and services, thus avoiding a first and second Santomera second".
Social criteria
The project, drafted by the municipal technical services, had a bidding budget of 162,000 euros, of which 113,832 will be contributed by the Autonomous Community through the Regional Action Plan for the Dynamization of Works and Municipal Services (PARDOS);
the remaining 48,168 would be borne by the City Council.
The competitive presence of several companies has allowed however that the execution budget is 19% lower, remaining at 131,832 euros, according to the offer presented by Ayllonza, ultimately awarded the works.
However, in addition to economic ones, other environmental and social criteria have also been considered;
within the latter emphasizes the obligation on the part of the concessionaire to hire a person attached to the System of Youth Guarantee during the three months that the work will last.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Santomera